Aerospike · 13 hours ago
Senior Principal Engineer, Telemetry & Licensing Systems
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $312K/yr
15+ years expAerospike is building the core systems that fuel our growth engine, telemetry ingestion, licensing enforcement, entitlement APIs, and usage-based monetization. As Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll set the architectural vision for these platforms, breaking down highly ambiguous challenges into clear, actionable designs.
AnalyticsBig DataDatabaseReal TimeSoftware
Hiring Manager
Simon Williams
Responsibilities
Lead the design and architecture of Aerospike’s telemetry and licensing systems, ensuring global scale, reliability, and security
Break down complex, ambiguous technical challenges into actionable strategies that align system design with company growth goals
Define long-term architecture for entitlement services, usage metering, high-watermark billing, and event models
Partner with Product, RevOps, and Finance to integrate telemetry and licensing into monetization and adoption workflows
Mentor and guide engineers across teams, building alignment on system design and execution
Anticipate technical risks in hybrid SaaS + self-managed deployments and define mitigation strategies
Drive adoption of observability-first practices across telemetry pipelines and licensing services
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, providing senior-level technical leadership during critical incidents
Represent Aerospike externally as a thought leader in telemetry, licensing, and distributed systems
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in high-scale, high-performance service-oriented systems
Proven success designing and delivering large-scale telemetry, ingestion, or licensing platforms in production
Strong experience across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, containers, microservices)
Hands-on depth in languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar, with comfort across multiple stacks
Track record of modernizing complex systems and driving initiatives spanning dozens of engineers and global teams
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to clarify complexity and influence at all levels
Preferred
Experience with observability and incident response tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty)
Industry recognition through open-source contributions, publications, or external talks
Company
Aerospike
Aerospike is a NoSQL database designed for real-time and mission-critical applications.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$241MKey Investors
CIBC Innovation BankingSumeru Equity PartnersTriangle Peak Partners
2024-12-03Series Unknown
2024-04-04Series E· $109M
2021-01-01Debt Financing· $70M
Leadership Team
Srini V. Srinivasan
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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